ypole in the Strand?"

Mrs. Inchbald lived by the side of the New Church in the Strand.

The immense changes taking place in the Strand begin to be very
noticeable opposite Somerset House. At the time of writing a few houses
at the corner of Wellington Street are still standing, but will soon
disappear.

On the south side of the Strand, just beyond the east end of St. Mary's
Church, is a narrow entry called Strand Lane. This was formerly Strand
Bridge, over one of the rivulets running down to the Thames, and later
it still retained the same name, meaning the bridge or landing stairs at
the river end.

Some way down this lane there is a notice pointing out a Roman bath
which is still in existence and well worth seeing. The bath now belongs
to Messrs. Glave, drapers in New Oxford Street, and is open free of
charge for anyone to inspect between eleven and twelve o'clock on
Saturday mornings. It is a rough vaulted chamber which has wisely been
left without any attempt at decoration, and the bath itself measures
about six yards by one and a half. It is four feet in depth, and is fed
by a spring which continually flows in. Subscribers are allowed to use
it on the payment of two guineas per annum. There was formerly a
companion bath quite near, but this was done away with at the building
of the Norfolk Hotel. The slabs of white marble which form the pavement
of the existing bath were taken from it. It is curious that such a
relic, computed to be perhaps 2,000 years old, should survive hidden and
almost unnoticed, where so many buildings long anterior in date have
utterly vanished. The bath is not mentioned by Stow or Malcolm in their
accounts of London, and probably was not discovered when they wrote.

In Surrey Street Congreve died in 1729. The greater part of this and the
neighbouring streets has been very recently rebuilt. Huge modern
red-brick mansions with all the latest conveniences of electric light
and lifts replace the old mansion which once stood here. These are
carefully built and not unpicturesque; they are let in flats, and house
a multitude of offices, clubs, etc. They are called by the names of the
noble families who once lived here--Arundel House, Mowbray House, and
Howard House. In Norfolk Street there are hotels and a small ladies'
club, the Writers', the only women's club in London which demands a
professional qualification from its members. Peter the Great lodged in
this street, and William Penn, the Q